Livestock, aquaculture expo to center on food security, safety, sustainability

key stakeholders to achieve our goal: a foodsecure, safe, and sustainable livestock, poultry, and aquaculture industry,” said de Mesa, who also chairs the Livestock Philippines 2023 Interagency Steering Committee.

visitors, and stakeholders from the Philippine livestock, poultry, and aquaculture supply chains will participate in this year’s expo.

The 2023 expo embodies the theme “Ecosystem of Livestock and Poultry Production on Food Security, Safety, And Sustainability.” It will occur at the World Trade Center Metro Manila, Pasay City, from July 5 to 7, 2023.

Attendees of the 2023 Livestock Philippines

THE Department of Agriculture (DA)—through its National Livestock Program (NLP) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)—strengthens its partnership with event management institution Informa Markets for the conduct of this year’s Livestock Philippines and its concurrent event, Aquaculture Philippines.

The Livestock and Aquaculture Philippines are part of the DA’s efforts to forge good relations with the private sector and key industry stakeholders to encourage them to actively participate in governmentled initiatives toward agricultural and economic development in the country.

During the press conference at the Novotel Manila Araneta City last June 26, DA Assistant Secretary for Operations Arnel V. de Mesa assured that the Department would employ various initiatives tapping into every stakeholder’s strengths in the agriculture and fisheries sectors.

“This is one of the strategies of the Department to work hand-inhand with the private sector and our

Informa Markets Regional Portfolio Director for ASEAN Rose Chitanuwat introduced the Livestock and Aquaculture Philippines as the largest annual international trade fair for the Philippine livestock, poultry, and aquaculture industries, bringing together about 300 suppliers of agricultural feeds, machinery and equipment, management systems, and solutions from 32 countries.

“It is a trade exhibition, businessto-business, with the aim to [make] the supply chain of the livestock and aquaculture industries grow efficiently, effectively, and sustainably,” Chitanuwat said.

Around 10,000 farmers, traders,